Woven-wire bed



(No Model.)

.n SE TB RE Em w Rm No. 451,522. Patented May 5, 1891.

PATENT rrrcn.

HENRY ROBERTS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

WOVEN-WIRE BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,522, dated May 5,1891.

Application filed December 27, 1887. Serial No. 259.151. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY ROBERTS, of Hartford, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Woven-W'ire Beds, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art canmake and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide means for attaching woven-wireor like extensible spring fabric to a bed-frame by devices that providefor the forcible stretching of the fabric lengthwise, and also toprovide a woven-wire fabric in a form that will enable the manufacturerto dispense with the side rails that are usually present in thebed-bottom as it leaves the factory and to produce a fabric in a lightform convenient for packing and shipment.

My invention consists in the combination of an extensible woven-wirefabric, end rails secured to the fabric, the folding arms borne on theend rails, and the attaching devices; and it further consists in thedetails of the several parts of the structure and their combination witha bedstead-frame, as more particularly hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a detail View, in centrallengthwise section, of a bed-frame and of the woven-wire fabric, withpart indicated in dotted outline, and illustrating the method ofoperation of my improvement when one end rail is attached to the sidebars of the frame and the other end rail only is provided withtoggle-arms. Fig. 2 is a detail top view of the parts shown in Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of one of the end rails with the connectedarms. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the reverse side of the end rail,showing the arms folded. Fig. 5 is a detail view, on enlarged scale, ofthe anchor-block and of the end rail removably connected thereto bystuds. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view, on enlarged scale, of theanchorblock.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes what I will term themattress, this being preferably madeof woven-wire, in the manner wellknown in the art for producing woven-wire mattresses, and the oppositeends of this mattress a are secured to the end rails Z) Z) in anyconvenient-manner, as by clamping them between the two parts of therail. In this form such a mattress may be conveniently stowed forshipment by rolling it up 011 the end rail, and is comparatively light,the side rails of the frame, to which such a mattress is usually securedin the trade, being dispensed with until the mattress is put directly inuse, when the side rails of the bedstead-frame are made to serve thatpurpose. The ends of one end rail are provided with the broad-headedstuds 0, that fit into the dovetailed locking-slot it in theanchor-block 7c. The other end rail 1) bears two arms 6', pivoted to theunder side of the rail at the opposite ends in such manner as to permitthem to be folded up lengthwise of the end rail very compactly, as shownin Fig. 40f the drawings. Each of these arms is provided on its outerend with the key-hole slot (1 by means of which the arm may be removablysecured to the studs f by slipping the arm onto the broadened head ofthe stud f and then sliding the arm lengthwise. ing this mattress to abedstead or other frame the arms are secured, as by the means describedand as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, to the ends of the end rails of themattress and with the inner ends of the arms pivoted to the studs f, thearms having an angular position with reference to the plane of theframe, while the other end rail of the mattress rests upon and issecured to the anchor-blocks it. The other end of the mattress is thendepressed by pushing down on the end rail 1), and as it approaches theplane of the frame, a spring-tension is put upon the mattress, thedistance between the studs f and end rail 1) being such that thedistance between the end rails when one of them is in the raisedposition, as shown in Fig. 2, is less than when the said end rail isdepressed so as to lie in or near a plane passing through the end railsand points of support f. When in the latter position, the fabric istightly stretched between the end rails, which may be held in thisposition by any desirable means.

The several locking-slots in each arm are provided so that the end railsmay be adjusted at a greater or less distance from each other, so as toprovide for the needed degree of stretching of the fabric to secure theproper In attachtension when in place when held in a frame theanchor-block and the other end rail bcar- 1o ready for use. ing thefolding arms, and the arms pivoted I claim as my invention to the underside of said end rail and having In combination with a bedstead-frame g,in their outer ends the key-hole slots, allsnb having the side railswith anchor-blocks 7i; and stantially as described.

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